Failures of Roosevelt's "Old Socialist Deal"
Programs

When President Roosevelt took office in 1933, he feverishly imposed
socialist program after socialist program upon Americans.
He imposed programs that were called FDR's "alphabet soup"
as well as the "New Deal." He exacerbated the government-caused depression
(making it "great" in scope and length). Worse, Roosevelt permanently crippled
the country and his damage continues to spread. http://rexcurry.net/book11pledge-ch2a1a.html

The USA's Pledge of Allegiance (& the military salute)
was the origin of Adolf Hitler's "Nazi" salute under the National
Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis). http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html

The swastika, although an ancient symbol,
was also used to represent "S" letters joined for "socialism" under
the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis), similar to the
alphabetical symbolism for the SS Division, the SA, the NSV, and
the VW logo (the letters "V" and "W" joined for "Volkswagen").
http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter4a1a2a1.html

Francis Bellamy & Edward
Bellamy touted National Socialism and the police state in the USA decades
before their dogma was exported to Germany. They influenced the NSDAP,
its dogma, symbols and rituals. http://rexcurry.net/police-state.html

THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE & NAZISM & Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(FDR). The straight arm salute was an American greeting before it
was a German greeting. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was influenced by
Francis Bellamy, Edward Bellamy and their dogma of National Socialism
and Military Socialism, years before the existence of the National Socialists
German Workers Party. See the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssWWZ3XEe4

Whenever someone praises Roosevelt's programs, he might as well also praise
the programs of Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Hitler. Roosevelt's programs
are praised as helping poor people and ameliorating the depression. Wasn't
that the same claim made by and for Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Hitler (and the
claim was made by the same people who praised FDR)? Did their programs do
the same things as Roosevelt's? The only good point is the extent to which
Roosevelt and his programs were obstructed and stopped. The sad part is
that Roosevelt and his programs were not stopped entirely. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvDwL553pVM

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Social Security
Act

This act established
a system that provided old-age pensions for workers, survivors
benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment
insurance, and aid for defendant mothers and children, the blind
and physically disabled.

Although the original
SSA did not cover farm and domestic workers, it did
help millions of Americans feel more secure.

The original SSA
did not originally cover farm and domestic workers. It impoverished
millions of Americans and made them feel less secure. The
unconstitutional theft program continues to impoverish even more
today. It is the cornerstone of the USA's growing police state.
Even American infants are numbered at birth and everyone is tracked
from cradle to grave. http://rexcurry.net/SSNall.html
and http://rexcurry.net/ssnunconstitutional.html

Emergency Banking Act/Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

On March 6, 1933 he shut down
all of the banks in the nation and forced Congress to pass
the Emergency Banking Act which gave the government police state
powers over all banks. Then he created more socialism with the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to force taxpayers to
bail out banks, euphemistically described "insure deposits up to
$5000."

These measures reestablished
American faith in banks. Americans were no longer scared
that they would lose all of their savings in a bank failure.
Government inspectors found that most banks were healthy, and two-thirds
were allowed to open soon after. After reopening, deposits had
exceeded withdrawals.

This was more
socialism piled on top of the mess created after the 1913 Federal
Reserve Act was imposed, which expanded the government's ability
to print, counterfeit and inflate its paper money, leading to
more depressions created by the government, including the Great
Depression in 1929. http://rexcurry.net/money.html
These measures lessened American faith in government money.
Government inspectors found that most banks were healthy, but
the socialism stayed, of course. Adding insult to injury, FDR confiscated
every American’s gold. That further expanded the government’s
ability to counterfeit and inflate its worthless paper money.
http://rexcurry.net/moneyart.html
It is sad to note that the USA's police state did not allow private
ownership of gold until 1973. It was illegal for Americans to buy
and own gold American coins, but they could enjoy that freedom by leaving
the U.S. and traveling to Switzerland, though it was illegal for them
to bring those American coins back into the U.S.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

The SEC was created by
section 4 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (now codified
as 15 U.S.C. § 78d and commonly referred to as the 1934 Act).
In addition to the 1934 Act that created it, the SEC enforces the Securities
Act of 1933, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, the Investment Company
Act of 1940, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
of 2002 and other statutes.

The SEC was more socialism
piled on top of various other controls/laws that were imposed. By
its very existence the SEC had an effect upon the public that was similar
to other bureaucracies that claimed to protect the public (compare
social security): it duped the public into believing that it was protected
(in a way that is similar to how social security dupes Americans into
not investing for retirement). Thus the SEC led to the biggest private
ponzi scheme of all time under Madoff in 2008 (the SEC had even looked
at Madoff's work and found no problem). Of course, Madoff's ponzi
scheme was nothing compared to social security. If Madoff had been FDR
then Madoff would have been hailed as a great innovator and statesman.
It is a wonder why Madoff's company was not "bailed out" or declared
to be part of the social security system.

Civilian Conservation
Corps (CCC)

This environmental
program put 2.5 million unmarried men to work maintaining and
restoring forests, beaches, and parks. Workers earned only $1
a day but received free board and job training. From 1934 to
1937, this program funded similar programs for 8,500 women.

The CCC taught
the men and women of America how to live independently,
thus, increasing their self esteem.

The CCC taught
the men and women of America how to live dependently on the government
in military-style camps, ala Bellamy "military socialism" thus,
decreasing their self esteem. http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter5a1.html

Agricultural Adjustment
Act 1934

The AAA tried
to raise farm prices. It used proceeds from a new tax
to pay farmers not to raise specific crops and animals. Lower
production would, in turn, increase prices.

The AAA tried
to raise farm prices. It used proceeds from a new tax
to pay farmers not to raise specific crops and animals. The socialist
reasoning was that lower production would, in turn, increase
prices.

Socialized American
Agriculture, causing massive problems as it did in similar
programs under the Union of Soviet Sovialist Republics, The
Peoples' Republic of China and under the National Socialist German
Workers Party. http://rexcurry.net/usda.html
Farmers killed off certain animals and crops as they were
told to by the AAA. Many could not believe that the federal government
was condoning such an action when many Americans were starving. Declared
unconstitutional later on.

Fair Labor Standards Act
of 1938

This purported
to ban child labor and set a minimum wage. In the USA and elsewhere
it can have the effect of turning children into panhandlers, prostitutes
and drug dealers.

This law was a long awaited
triumph for the progressive-era social reformers.

A fan writes: I own a business, it's MINE, but along comes
a government and with threat of DEATH tries to FORCE me to pay
someone else a wage that I as the owner am NOT guaranteed. BULLSHIT!
and 3's 8 when the min wage went up I FIRED 4 of my 6 employees,
the remaining two have seen their checks DECREASE. why? because I cut
overtime AND I put them on a 35 hour based salary. How's the work getting
done you ask? I require them to work HARDER, and I have to do more
(which sux). Another way around the law is that Americans simply buy imported
products (that were made by children working for less than the minimum wage
in countries where the police state is not as extensive as in the USA. Some
Americans want those children to lose their jobs too).

Civil Works Administration
(CWA)

This public work program gave
the unemployed jobs building or repairing roads, parks, airports,
etc.

The CWA provided a psychological
and physical boost to its 4 million workers.

Indian Reorganization Act
of 1934

This act ended the sale of
tribal lands and restored ownership of unallocated lands to
Native American groups.

The outcome was obviously
positive for the Native Americans.

National Industrial Recovery
Act (NIRA) of June 1933

The decline in the industrial
prices in 1930s caused business failures and unemployment.
The NIRA was formed in order to boost the declining prices, helping
businesses and workers. The NIRA also allowed trade associations
in many industries to write codes regulating wages, working
conditions, production, and prices. It also set a minimum wage.

The codes stopped the tailspin
of prices for a short time, but soon, when higher wages went
into effect, prices rose too. Thus, consumers stopped buying.
The continuous cycle of overproduction and underconsumption put
businesses back into a slump. Some businesses felt that the codes
were too complicated and the NRA was too rigid. Declared unconstitutional
later on.

Public Works Association (PWA)

The PWA launched projects
such as the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River.

This act required full disclosure
of information on stocks being sold. The SEC regulated the
stock market. Congress also gave the Federal Reserve Board the
power to regulate the purchase of stock on margin.

Not pleasing for businesses.

The SEC was more
socialism piled on top of various other controls/laws that were
imposed. By its very existence the SEC had an effect upon the public
that was similar to other bureaucracies that claimed to protect the
public (compare social security): it duped the public into believing
that it was protected (in a way that is similar to how social security
dupes Americans into not investing for retirement). Thus the SEC led
to the biggest private ponzi scheme (now known as a "Madoff scheme)
of all time under Madoff in 2008 (the SEC had even looked at Madoff's work
and found no problem). Of course, Madoff's ponzi scheme was nothing
compared to social security. If Madoff had been FDR then Madoff would
have been hailed as a great innovator and statesman. It is a wonder
why Madoff's company was not "bailed out" or declared to be part of
the social security system.

In order to help people keep
their houses, the HOLC refinanced mortgages of middle-income
home owners. The AAA tried to raise farm prices. It used proceeds
from a new tax to pay farmers not to raise specific crops and animals.
Lower production would, in turn, increase prices.

Farmers killed off certain
animals and crops as they were told to by the AAA. Many could
not believe that the federal government was condoning such an action
when many Americans were starving. Declared unconstitutional
later on.

The dogma behind
the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) was the same dogma behind
government laws and programs that tricked Americans into the massive
loans/debt/credit that led to the real estate decline, crash and bankruptcies
of 2006-9.

The Agriculture Adjustment Administration (AAA) shares blame
for socializing American Agriculture, causing massive problems
as it did in similar programs under the Union of Soviet Sovialist
Republics, The Peoples' Republic of China and under the National
Socialist German Workers Party. http://rexcurry.net/usda.html
Farmers killed off certain animals and crops as they were
told to by the AAA. Many could not believe that the federal government
was condoning such an action when many Americans were starving.
Declared unconstitutional later on.

Tennessee Valley Authority
(TVA) (May 1993)

The TVA helped farmers and
created jobs in one of America s least modernized areas.

Reactivating a hydroelectric
power plant provided cheap electric power, flood control,
and recreational opportunities to the entire Tennessee River valley.

Works Progress Administration
(WPA) 1935-1943

This agency provided work
for 8 million Americans. The WPA constructed or repaired
schools, hospitals, airfields, etc.

Decreased unemployment.

Massively extended
the period of real unemployment by creating fake government jobs
in a method eerily similar to that (and coinciding with that) which
was happening under notorious socialist systems such as that under the
National Socialist German Workers Party and the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics.

Farm Security Administration
(FSA)

The FSA loaned more than $1
billion to farmers and set up camps for migrant workers.

National Labor Relations Act
(Wagner Act)

It legalized practices allowed
only unevenly in the past, such as closed shops in which only
union members can work and collective bargain. The act also set
up the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to enforce its provisions

Federal Emergency Relief Administration
(FERA)

Led by Harry Hopkins,
a former social worker, this agency sent funds to depleting
local relief agencies. Within two hours, $5 million were given
out. Mr. Hopkins believed that men should be put to work and
not be given charity. His program also funded public work programs.

Revitalized many deteriorating
relief programs.

War Production Board

Office of War Information (OWI) & Bureau of Motion Pictures
(BMP)

Office of War Information (OWI) by executive order in
June 1942 in order to seize even more control than FDR had from the
half-dozen overlapping propaganda agencies that had operated before
the war. Infusing movies with propaganda fell to the OWI’s Bureau
of Motion Pictures (BMP).

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Herbert Hoover did this as part of his national socialist
program that paved the way for FDR's additional expansion of the USA's
growing police state.

Federal Home Loan Bank Act

Herbert Hoover did this as part of his national socialist
program that paved the way for FDR.

52 percent increase in government spending

Herbert Hoover did this as part of his national socialist
program that showed the way for FDR's national socialist scams.

Third-largest budget deficit then in U.S. history

Herbert Hoover did this as part of his hyper interventionist
national socialist program that preceded FDR's national socialist scams.

Hoover Dam

Another "make-work" project of Herbert Hoover of the type that
was copy-catted by FDR.

The photograph above shows members of the fifth grade
at "Chcremoya [sic] public school of Hollywood" ( Cheremoya public
school ), as they pledge allegiance to the flag during the War Production
Board's (WPB) presentation, entitled "Three Thirds of the Nation" at
Hollywood's Radio City on May 27, 1942 (Bransby, David, photographer).

Today the military
salute at the chest complies with "the right
hand over the heart" dictated under the Flag Code that Congress
passed. The chest-military salute may have been the original
intent of people who supported "the right hand over the
heart" legislation.

A student wrote to say that he gave the early American salute
during the Pledge of Allegiance and screamed "dies ist scheissdreck!
(Scheißdreck)"
The government's Borat-style indoctrination program.
The current color-coded alert level for socialism: RED (severe).

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is a reminder of the character played by Peter
Sellers in the movie "Dr. Strangelove." Sellers played an eccentric, wheel-chair
bound mand with an uncontrollable mechanical hand that involuntarily makes
nazi salutes and threatens homicide. Dr. Strangelove was a German scientist,
and Presidential advisor.

FDR was a real-life American president who was wheel-chair bound and gave
the stiff-armed (national socialist) salute when the salute was part of the
Pledge of Allegiance (the Pledge was the origin of the nazi salute, as shown
in the discoveries of the historian Dr. Rex Curry). http://rexcurry.net/socialism-roosevelt.html

Not only is it difficult to find more than one photograph of FDR in a wheelchair,
it has been impossible to find FDR performing the Pledge of Allegiance as
he would have with the stiff-armed salute, and impossible to find a photo
of FDR in a wheelchair chanting the Pledge. Were such photos destroyed for
propaganda purposes? http://rexcurry.net/book11pledge-ch2a1a.html

There were other similarities between FDR and the strangelove movie: FDR
imposed insane national socialist legislation that lengthened the government's
great depression and then FDR took the USA into a foreign war. http://rexcurry.net/roosevelt-fdr-wheelchair.jpg

(The Strangelove character is also similar to real-life Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger).

FDR and other Americans were trained to do the early Pledge of Allegiance
gesture from childhood as the government's schools imposed backward behavior
that could be a movie entitled "Dr. Strangelove - or How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the Pledge of Allegiance and the nazi salute” (1942). The
robotic chanting continues today, only the lame gesture has changed.

As the USA's worst president, the socialist Franklin Delano Roosevelt, imposed
national socialism in the U.S., along with socialist slave numbers (social
security numbers). He and German socialists mimicked each other. Socialism
is as lame as Roosevelt's legs. The Pledge of Allegiance is as lame as FDR's
legs.

Alien hand syndrome is an unusual neurological disorder, also known as "Dr.
Strangelove syndrome," whereby one of the sufferer's hands does things against
his/her will and against his/her better judgment. Alien hand syndrome typically
results from damage to the brain. Another related condition is foreign accent
syndrome (in which people sound like they have a German accent or other foreign
accent when they didn't have one before).

The fictional character Dr. Strangelove had the inability to prevent his
hand from making an early American salute (later known as a Nazi salute).

It is a wonder why Roosevelt did not also impose the Americans With Disabilities
Act. Did Roosevelt think that the ADA was so clearly unconstitutional that
even FDR would not attempt to impose it? Instead decades passed before a republican
socialist (George Bush, the first) supported imposition of the socialist
legislation.
How were FDR and others able to survive without the ADA? How did Americans
and the world survive without social security and all the rest of FDR's totalitarian
police state?

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was so impressed by Bellamy's book
"Looking Backward" that Roosevelt wrote "Looking Forward" (1933) on Roosevelt's
way to impose Bellamy's national socialism in America. http://rexcurry.net/socialism-roosevelt.html

In 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt imposed the Civilian
Conservation Corps and created camps consistent with the dogma of military
socialism touted by Edward Bellamy and Francis Bellamy. Hitler at first
remarked admiringly about Roosevelt’s “dynamic” leadership. http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter5a1.html

Arthurdale, WV, was first known as “The Reedsville Project” by
the government employees who were sent there to establish the first
New Deal community under the first of three Franklin Delano Roosevelt
administrations.

Prior to FDR’s election in 1933, Eleanor became interested in
the work of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker organization
which had begun a child feeding program in Pennsylvania and West Virginia
at President Hoover’s request. Clarence Pickett, secretary of the AFSC,
was invited to Hyde Park, NY, FDR’s home, to discuss the AFSC’s efforts
at vocational reeducation and subsistence living projects. FDR, after his
1933 inauguration, promoted a bevy of bills to address the problems of
the Depression. One of these was a bill to establish a subsistence homestead
fund. This bill interested First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and she, along
with Clarence Pickett, who by then had been appointed chief of the Stranded
Mining and Industrial Populations Section of the Department of the Interior,
became involved with The Reedsville Project.

The Reedsville Project, later named Arthurdale after Richard
Arthur, from whom the land was purchased, was begun in 1934 as a homestead
community. Land was purchased, residents were selected, homes were constructed,
more residents were selected, more homes constructed… until there were
165 homes and several community buildings including a school complex,
built on approximately 1200 acres in rural Preston County, WV. Today,
most of the community buildings still stand and most are part of the
New Deal Homestead Museum.

Many of the new residents were displaced miners from the Scott’s
Run area near Morgantown, WV, but some moved here from other areas
of Preston County and WV. Some of the homes housed the government employees
who were assigned jobs here such as teachers, physicians, surveyors,
engineers, secretaries, etc.

The homesteaders themselves were responsible for paying rent,
working and farming their allotted acreage, and some were employed to
build new homes and the administration building, forge, gas station, cooperative
store, craft shop, center hall, and school buildings. Some found work
in the schools, post office, barber shop, and the Mountaineer Craftsman
Association. Some were hired to work in the numerous business ventures
which were enticed to the area.

The federal government liquidated its holdings in Arthurdale
in 1947; all homes and community buildings were sold to private ownership.

Another example of a similar government program is in Florida. In 1935,
the WPA launched the $1.5 million Cherry Lake Rehabilitation Project.
Officials selected 500 families residing in Tampa, Jacksonville, and
Miami, and moved them to a 15,000-acre communal tract they called Cherry
Lake Farms.

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Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal programs were remarkably similar to
the socialist programs under German National Socialism and Hitler as
well as those under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Stalin,
and under Benito Mussolini. (See Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt’s
America, Mussolini’s Italy, and Hitler’s Germany, 1933–1939 by Wolfgang
Schivelbusch). Note also the omnipresent banners, flags and pledges enlisting
citizens as loyal followers of the state.

Another one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's socialist programs or pogroms
-
Americans of Japanese descent perform
early American stiff-arm salute at internment camp http://rexcurry.net/pledgeofallegiance-japanese.jpg
(Another one of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt's socialist programs or pogroms).

A different photograph is often seen that is a poignant image of Japanese-American
children saying the pledge of allegiance (with the hand-over-the heart)
soon after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ordered the relocation of
120,000 Japanese-Americans into internment camps in the West (said hand-over-the-heart
photo is by Dorothea Lange). The people who display Lange's hand-over-the-heart
pic never show the stiff-armed salute photograph of Japanese-Americans
(or any Americans). Part of the reason is a media cover-up of the early
pledge history, and part of the reason is sheer ignorance of the Pledge
of Allegiance caused by government schools (socialist schools) that in
turn cover-up the pledge's putrid past. http://rexcurry.net/pledgesalute.html

Lange also photographed Thomas Cave with his social security number
tattooed to his arm during the government's depression in 1939 (the year
that the National Socialist German Workers Party joined as allies with the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in a pact to divide up Europe and both
invaded Poland et cetera). http://rexcurry.net/social-security-number-tattoo3.jpg

Lange, a photographer working for the ominously titled Resettlement
Administration (RA), had previously worked for FERA (forerunner of today's
FEMA) and later the FSA, took the picture of the socialist slave number
under the auspices of the USDA. Before the New Deal, government was much
smaller, and, saving the USDA, these "alphabetics" (as they were also called)
did not exist. http://rexcurry.net/tattoos.html

Thus, the Pledge of Allegiance salute changed after the U.S. had entered
WWII. The change that occurred on June 22, 1942 retained that part of the
"Bellamy salute" that involved extending the arm toward the flag (although
the gesture was initiated with the hand over the heart, in place of the
military salute). In other words, the first thing that Congress did was
ADOPT the raised-arm gesture, and enshrine it in law as an official gesture
of the USA (another scary parallel to German National Socialism under Franklin
Roosevelt). The U.S. Flag Code was passed by a joint resolution in Congress,
Public Law 829 (Chapter 806, 77th Congress, 2nd session). The code, inter
alia, contained the raised-arm salute (following the lead of the 1924 Flag
Day conference). Section 7, Pub.L. 77−623, 56 Stat. 380, Chap. 435, H.J.Res.
303, enacted June 22, 1942. (WITH the Bellamy Salute) - "That the pledge
of allegiance to the flag, ‘‘I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United
States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all’’, be rendered by standing with the right
hand over the heart; extending the right hand, palm upward, toward the flag
at the words ‘‘to the flag’’ and holding this position until the end, when
the hand drops to the side. However, civilians will always show full respect
to the flag when the pledge is given by merely standing at attention, men
removing the headdress. Persons in uniform shall render the military salute."

A later change dropped the extended arm gesture. Section 7, Pub.L. 77−829,
56 Stat. 1074, Chap. 806, H.J.Res. 359, enacted December 22, 1942. (WITHOUT
the Bellamy Salute) - "That the pledge of allegiance to the flag, ‘‘I pledge
allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic
for which it stands, one Nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for
all’’, be rendered by standing with the right hand over the heart. However,
civilians will always show full respect to the flag when the pledge is given
by merely standing at attention, men removing the headdress. Persons in uniform
shall render the military salute."

The Nazi salute had been used by the National Socialist German Workers'
Party for approximately two decades before 1942, and the salute was developed
and used in the U.S. from 1892.

THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE & NAZISM: Franklin Delano
Roosevelt FDR. The straight arm salute was an American Greeting
before it was the German Greeting. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was
influenced by Francis Bellamy, Edward Bellamy and their dogma of National
Socialism and military socialism, years before the existence of the
National Socialists German Workers Party. http://rexcurry.net/book11pledge-ch2a1a.html

NAZISM: Made in the USA. EDWARD BELLAMY AUTHOR OF "LOOKING
...
The USA’s worst president, the socialist Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, imposed national socialism in the U.S., along with socialist
slave numbers (social ...http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter1a1h.html

ERNST HANFSTAENGL, SWASTIKAS, & NATIONAL SOCIALISM
- Franz Ernst ...
Roosevelt was so impressed by Bellamy's book that Roosevelt
wrote ... Roosevelt's policies (Bellamy schemes) were imposed by
law on Americans, nevertheless. ...http://rexcurry.net/swastika-hanfstaengl.html

SUPPORT CAPITALISM ! IN GOLD WE TRUST, the hatred of
money is the root of all evil. It is impossible to overstate the
significance of Franklin Roosevelt's confiscation from Americans. Sure,
Roosevelt paid Americans more money for the gold he seized than did
Roosevelt's socialist comrade Castro. It was illegal for Americans to
buy and own gold American coins, but Americans could enjoy more freedom
(and that freedom) by leaving the U.S. and traveling to Switzerland, where
U.S. gold coins could be purchased in Swiss banks (though it was illegal
for them to bring those American coins back into the U.S.). A fan of
this web site who is a doctor purchased U.S. gold coins in Switzerland
in 1956. http://rexcurry.net/money.html

THE FLAG INSTITUTE www.flaginstitute.org claims to
be the world's ...
Oct 16, 2007 ... FDR Roosevelt Nazi salute Fascist
Hitler Third Reich As early as the 1920's, ... Roosevelt also attended
Harvard and knew Hanfstaengl. ...http://rexcurry.net/flaginstitute.html

Your equating George W. Bush with FDR is spot-on
("Franklin Delano Bush," October 20). Both presidents recklessly
increased government's role in the economy - a move that proved
(in FDR's case) and will prove (in Bush's case) to do nothing but
saturate the economy with such uncertainty as to frighten away entrepreneurs
and investors.

But popular history will almost surely remember
Bush, not as a second FDR, but as a second Herbert Hoover.
The myth will be made that Bush was a staunch free-marketeer who
was succeeded in the Oval Office by a charismatic saint whose hyperactive
interventions saved the economy (even though precious little evidence
of economic salvation will appear in the data). History will
forget Bush's interventions just as it has forgotten Hoover's - as it
has forgotten that Hoover signed the largest tariff hike in U.S. history;
as it has forgotten that Hoover tried to create jobs by deporting hundreds
of thousands of Mexicans; as it has forgotten that Hoover signed the
Emergency Relief and Construction Act, the Federal Home Loan Bank Act,
and created the Reconstruction Finance Corporation; as it has forgotten
the Fed's panicked response to economic anxiety during Hoover's term.

History will repeat itself, blaming capitalism for
a problem caused and intensified by government interventions.

The title of Frank Rich's column today proclaims that "Herbert
Hoover Lives." Indeed he does. But contrary to Mr. Rich's
argument, Hoover's ghost seems to animate President Obama at least
as much as it animates G.O.P. members of Congress.

In response to the economic downturn of the early 1930s,
President Hoover signed the largest tariff hike in U.S. history
(Smoot-Hawley); he tried to spur the residential real-estate market
with the Federal Home Loan Bank Act; he sought to assist the financial
sector by launching the Reconstruction Finance Corporation; and he
aimed to decrease unemployment through public-works programs with
the Emergency Relief and Construction Act.

Oh, and he also raised taxes on corporations and on the
rich. No laissez faire President he!

Seems to me as if U.S. President #44 has had some séances
with U.S. President #31.

A Horrible, Little-Known Legacy of the Great Depression
Posted by Lew Rockwell

Writes Bob Higgs:

Not many people are aware that during the early 1930s,
thousands of Americans emigrated from the United States to the
USSR. Some, many of them unemployed engineers and technical workers,
went simply in search of employment in the Soviets’ big push to industrialize;
others went in search of a better society they mistakenly believed
the Communists were building.

No doubt, most of them became disillusioned after a
while, if not immediately. Worse, thousands of them were enmeshed
in Stalin’s purges of the latter 1930s and ended up in the Gulag,
where prisoners endured an extraordinarily harsh life, usually cut
short by a painful death after a few months or years. Some of these
victims managed to appeal to U.S. diplomats inside the USSR for help, only
to be turned away by over-cautious junior-level careerists or, in effect,
by supercilious higher-ups who were even more despicable.

Detroit auto executives persistently plead for Uncle
Sam to bail them out - in part from the consequences of regulatory
burdens that Uncle Sam himself imposed ("Auto Makers Detail Restructuring
Plans," December 2). This unsavory spectacle calls to mind
an observation by the great Depression-era journalist Dorothy Thompson,
who wrote during the height of the New Deal that "Unfortunately our
policies are made by people who are often sadistic anti-capitalists....
They seem to think that the way to socialize any industry is first
to bankrupt it and then socialize the losses."

No one should wonder why the St. Petersburg
Times is called "Pravda West." It has a horrid heritage.
Its heritage is so horrid that the journalist and historian Dr.
Rex Curry (author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets") helped launch
the Pointer Institute to counter-act the Poynter Institute.
http://rexcurry.net/mediapoint.html

The Poynter Institute and the St. Petersburg
Times are both examples of why government schools are unconstitutional,
and have destroyed a free press, and must end.

Nelson Poynter, son of the founder of the St. Petersburg
Times newspaper, and one of the namesakes of the "Poynter
Institute," was one of the "point men" in Hollywood for the USA's
worst president, the socialist Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR).
http://rexcurry.net/socialism-roosevelt.html

Nelson Poynter (1903 – 1978) moved to Florida in
1912 when his father bought the Saint Petersburg Times newspaper.
Nelson Poynter began buying stock from his father in 1935, and
he became an editor in 1939. He stayed in this position until his
father's death in 1953 when he was appointed president. He co-founded
the Congressional Quarterly with his wife, Henrietta. He established
the Poynter Fund in 1954 to honor his father.

Roosevelt imposed the Office of War Information
(OWI) by executive order in June 1942 in order to seize even more
control than FDR had from the half-dozen overlapping propaganda
agencies that had operated before the war. Infusing movies with
propaganda fell to the OWI’s Bureau of Motion Pictures (BMP). The
BMP was run by the former newspaperman Lowell Mellett. His deputy was
Nelson Poynter, the 39-year-old socialist publisher of the St . Petersburg
Times.http://rexcurry.net/mediapoint.html

Poynter acted as a promoter of socialism in films
of the day, censoring anything that was too pro-liberty, and
even seeing that movies produced in that era had to pass inspection
by the embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics located
in New York (see MGM's 1940 movie "Song Of Russia," a blatant
propaganda movie glorifying the socialist misery of the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics). The Roosevelt administration's Office
of War Information (which claimed the right to "comment" on film
scripts) had the script for "Song of Russia" vetted by the Embassy
of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics!

Smilar criticisms is merited by Poynter's involvement
with film's such as "Hitler's Children" concerning the National
Socialist German Workers Party. Note that the title of the film is
not "National Socialist Children" evidencing a misleading habit similar
to one that is still used at the St. Petersburg Times newspaper.

Also note this quote written by Robyn Blumner in the
St. Petersburg Times: "The [free] market is not the best part of
America. Not even close. Our government is the best part – or at least
it used to be before the current gang took over."

The governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics and the National Socialist German Workers Party were
part of the socialist inquisition that caused the Wholecaust (of
which the Holocaust was a part): ~60 million dead under the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics; ~50 million dead under the Peoples'
Republic of China; ~20 million dead under the National Socialist German
Workers' Party.

In 1939, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
(USSR) joined as allies with the National Socialist German Workers
Party (NSGWP) to invade Poland in a plan to divide up Europe. Even
after the National Socialist German Workers Party ended, the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics continued to pursue (and expand) the goals
it had agreed to with the NSGWP.

The newspaper employs writers who deliberately
use the word "Nazi" in the continuing effort to rehabilitate
socialism and to NEVER write the actual name of the horrid Party:
National Socialist German Workers' Party. On at least one occasion,
after being specifically asked (during the writing of an article)
to identify the actual full name of the Party, a St. Petersburg Times
writer refused to do so. It is the same propaganda policy employed
by Nelson Poynter regarding "Hilter's Children" and other films
in order to promote deadly socialism in the U.S. http://rexcurry.net/reciting-the-pledge-of-allegiance1918.jpg

For more on the topic read "Ayn Rand and Song of
Russia: Communism and Anti-Communism in 1940s Hollywood" by
Robert Mayhew. It recalls Ayn Rand's testimony about the movie
"Song of Russia" before the the House Un-American Activities Committee
in 1947.

Ayn Rand debunked the movie as pro-Soviet
propaganda and deliberate lies about the miserable reality
of life under socialism in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
The author Robert Mayhew supports each part of her testimony that
indicts the historic mess of the Soviet socialists. Mayhew
reveals Rand right in each respect.

Dr. Mayhew even interviewed the surviving
co-writer of Song of Russia, ex-"Communist" Richard Collins.
The book is a scary revelation about socialist influence in Hollywood
- and Washington.

Dr. Mayhew goes beyond the presentation
of historical facts. He discusses the political, philosophical
and ethical impact of the HUAC investigations regarding free
speech, blacklists, "naming names," and truthfulness regarding
wartime propaganda, etc. He gives Ayn Rand's views, based in
part on previously unpublished work, and his own illuminating
analysis.

Dr. Mayhew also reveals the hypocrisy and
lies of socialists in Hollywood and of their successors their
and in the newspaper business and media everywhere. He refutes
their smears of Rand, which continue to this day.

The book also provides even more proof
(as if any were needed) that FDR and Herbert Hoover were actually
of the same socialist persuasion, the so called Progressives.
FDR lied (in order to gain election) about his intention to cut
government and then FDR expanded the massive socialism that Hoover
had previously launched.

22 August 2009

Editor, The New York Times Book Review
620 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10018

To the Editor:

Suggesting that President Herbert Hoover followed laissez-faire
policies, David Leonhart writes that "we can't rerun the past year
with a Hooverite economic strategy" to see what its outcome would have
been ("Theory and Morality in the New Economy," August 19)

No need to do so, for the past year WAS run "with a Hooverite
economic strategy." From Pres. Hoover's 52 percent increase in
government spending to his running the third-largest budget deficit
then in U.S. history - and from his creation of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation to his signing of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act - Hoover's
hyperactive intervention nearly 80 years ago was not very different from
Bush's and Obama's hyperactive interventions today. Hoover himself,
campaigning for re-election in October 1932, bragged of rejecting the advice
of "reactionary economists [who] urged that we should allow the liquidation
to take its course until it had found its own bottom. "*

Jim Powell’s new book on Theodore Roosevelt (hereinafter T.R.) is more
of an economic history of the Progressive era than a biography of the
former president, but he completes a valuable trilogy with his prior books,
Wilson’s War and FDR’s Folly. In these three books he conclusively refutes
the mainstream historical myth that the free market failed and caused
the 1929 Depression and that FDR solved the problem with his New Deal.
The Progressive era’s two main presidents, T.R. and Wilson, share the blame
of heaping more federal controls over the economy by creating both the
Federal Reserve System and an income tax in 1913, as well as getting America
into World War I. Powell’s book on FDR clearly shows that the New Deal
prolonged the 1929 Depression rather than solving it.

Powell demonstrates how T.R. created governmental monopolies while
alleging that he was fighting monopolies created by the free market. His
conservation efforts were counterproductive and he was basically a champion
of the "progressive" idea of increasing the power of the federal government
while diminishing individual rights and the concept of Federalism created
by our founders.

This book counters the usual mainstream history contained in such books
as The Readers’ Companion to American History, edited by Eric Foner and
John A. Garraty, which extols T.R. as the "most dynamic of American presidents."
He is especially praised in this book for what became known as the "Roosevelt
Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine" wherein he proclaimed that it was America’s
right to intervene in any Latin American country that was not being managed
well.

Powell does not compare T.R. with Mussolini, but having read an excellent
biography of the Duce entitled Mussolini: A Biography by Denis Mack Smith
shortly before reading Powell’s book on T.R., I noticed many glaring similarities.
I believe Powell’s book shows that T.R. deserves the label of "America’s
Mussolini." Powell provides a quote from T.R. which states "I don’t think
that any harm comes from the concentration of power into one man’s hands."
Powell states further, "Roosevelt expanded the power of the executive branch
at the expense of Congress." Smith states that Mussolini brought about
the "extreme centralization of power that almost everything depended on
him; if he was away from Rome, much of the administration simply came to
a halt." Smith further states that Mussolini believed in personal rule
by him even though he created a vast bureaucracy to control the economy.
Powell states that T.R. believed that "politicians could solve the problems
of the world if only they were given enough power." Powell quotes T.R.
as saying, "I did greatly broaden the use of executive power" and concludes
that "Indeed, Roosevelt ushered in the practice of ruling by means of executive
orders, bypassing the congressional legislative process. There had been
presidential directives since the beginning, but they had seldom been used.
During the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, they became known as executive
orders. From Lincoln to Roosevelt’s predecessor, William McKinley, there
was a total of 158 executive orders. Roosevelt, during his seven years in
office issued 1,007 . . . . Only two other presidents issued more executive
orders than he: his fellow progressive Woodrow Wilson (1,791) and his distant
cousin, Franklin Deleno Roosevelt (3,723)."

Besides their egocentric personalities and their economic policies,
the most glaring similarity between Mussolini and T.R. is their praise of
war and its "benefits." Smith states that "Imperial expansion became more
and more a favorite theme" of Mussolini’s speeches. Smith goes on to state
that Mussolini "began to refer more frequently to war as one of the few
truly ennobling and energizing facts of human experience and to imperialism
as the supreme test of a nation’s vitality." Smith states that Mussolini
was "obsessed by the idea of war as something glorious" and that "war . .
. was the only truly beautiful action that made life worth living." Smith
quotes Mussolini as stating, "War is the most important thing in any man’s
life" and that "only through military glory could a country become great,
only battle makes a man complete . . . . "

Powell states that "Theodore Roosevelt believed war was glorious, even
healthy for a nation. He thought that reasons for participating in war
should not be limited to national defense. He insisted that the United
States should intervene in affairs of other nations and enter into other
people’s wars to do good." Powell further states that T.R. "Claimed that
war would make better men and a better world. He longed for the excitement
of war as he showed clearly in the Spanish-American War, when he resigned
from his position as assistant secretary of navy to enter the fighting and
secure a measure of glory." Powell reveals the fact that T.R. actively lobbied
to obtain the Congressional Medal of Honor, but was denied this because he
only served for two weeks and his "exploits were limited to a single day.
More than a century later Roosevelt was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously
by President Bill Clinton." Powell goes further by quoting T.R. "No triumph
of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war."

Powell’s book points out the aggressive measures of T.R. in gaining
Federal control of the economy in order to eliminate the free market. Powell
states, "Theodore Roosevelt claimed that politicians and bureaucrats could
achieve fairness by interfering with the economy." He "never recognized
the fatal flaw of giving a few people enormous power over the entire economy."
Powell points out that it was T.R. who introduced his slogan, "The New Nationalism"
by which he meant, "Executive power as the steward of the public welfare."
T.R. believed that it was within the president’s power "not only his right
but his duty to do anything that the needs of the nation demanded unless
such action was forbidden by the constitution or by the laws."

Powell quotes T.R. as stating, "I am a Hamiltonian in my governmental
views, especially with reference to the need of the exercise of broad powers
by the national government." I believe that if you connect the dots you will
see a straight line from Hamilton to Henry Clay to Lincoln to T. R. to Wilson
and finally to FDR. All of these politicians believed that the federal
government should be in control of the economy but certain businesses should
be favored by a partnership with the government through subsidies and other
benefits.

Powell points out that T.R. dropped out of law school and used some
of his large inheritance to run a ranch but his own attempt at business
was a complete failure. Powell states, "Roosevelt knew little about business,
as his disastrous ranching losses made clear and he certainly never seems
to have thought about the function of prices in an economy."

In conclusion Powell certainly depicts T.R. as one of the most energetic
presidents but further concludes that this trait was disastrous for the
peace and prosperity of America. Powell concludes this excellent book with
the statement, "What we need, most of all is liberty and peace," but he
demonstrates clearly that T.R. was not the man to give us either one.